Iran to import H1N1 vaccine from France
Health Minister Marziyeh Vahid-Dastjerdi stated on Monday that Iran will import vaccine for the H1N1 virus from France in the near future. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting with the former health ministers, she said health officials decided to import the vaccine from a reputable country and therefore France was selected. - 11/17/09
Swine flu death toll stands at 58 in Iran
Swine flu has claimed the lives of 58 people in Iran so far, said Dr. Mohamad-Mehdi Guya, the Health Ministry director for the Infectious Diseases, on Wednesday. At least 25 new deaths were reported over the past weeks, Guya told reporters. - 11/12/09
Iran achieves millennium goals in reducing maternal mortality
The maternal mortality rate in Iran now stands at 22 per 100,000 births which was 250 per 100,000 childbirths in 1979, the Iran Women News Agency (IWNA) quoted the woman minister as saying. - 11/8/09
Iran: 271 schools in Tehran Province temporarily closed due to swine flu
Some 271 schools in cities across Tehran Province have been temporarily closed due to the swine flu epidemic, the Tehran Education Department's public relations officer for provincial cities said on Saturday. The Health Ministry has said 23 citizens have died of the H1N1 virus so far. - 11/8/09
Health officials want to cancel hajj for Iranians due to swine flu
The Health Ministry and the Majlis Health Committee are seriously opposed to allowing Iranians to go on hajj this year due to the swine flu epidemic, MP Mohammad-Reza Rezaii-Kouchi said on Saturday. - 11/7/09
Father of Modern Laparoscopy, Dr. Camran Nezhat, Revolutionizes Modern Surgery
Camran Nezhat, M.D. is an internationally renowned Laparoscopic Surgeon, Scientist and Innovator at Stanford University Medical Center. He has been practicing medicine and surgery at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto since 1993. - 11/5/09
Unmasking The Truth About Swine Flu
Just about everybody knows the H1N1 virus -- popularly known as swine flu -- has spread around the globe since it was first identified in Mexico in April. But few people realize that the spread has been so thorough that doctors now consider the H1N1 virus to be the dominant flu strain in the world today. That means that doctors will assume that you have swine flu if you fall ill with influenza this season. -Charles Recknagel - 11/5/09
Photos: H1N1 in Tehran Streets
Media activist Farvartish Rezvanieh protested the inactivity of the Iranian officials in fighting the spread of Swine Flu. In a symbolic gesture, Farvartish wore an H1N1 bunny suite and walked in the streets of Tehran in order to bring public awareness about this deadly virus. In response, one of the officials of the Health Ministry called Farvartish's move useless and said he should be sent to a mental hospital! - 11/1/09
UN Conference Highlights Failures To Reduce Maternal Deaths
Every minute, somewhere in the world, a woman dies of complications in pregnancy or childbirth. That means a total of around half a million maternal deaths each year. To address this alarming problem, the United Nations Population Fund has brought together international policymakers, government ministers, and lawmakers for two conferences in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, this week. - 10/28/09
12 Million Smokers In Iran
The managing director of the Iranian Tobacco Company says that 12 million Iranians smoke cigarettes. - 10/26/09
Excessive Thinking and Brain Stroke (CVA)
According to the prevalent medical belief, the main cause of brain stroke (cerebrovascular infarction) is obstruction of blood vessels by blood clots (embolism) or bleeding (hemorrhage).Overwork and hyperactivity of this organ is never considered as a major causing factor in these injuries. -Dr. Mohammad Hossein Najmabadi - 10/23/09
Swine flu claims 16th victim in Iran
One student has died of swine flu, bringing the death toll from H1N1 virus to 16 across the country, the Iranian Deputy Health Minister announced in Tehran on Wednesday. - 10/22/09
Photos: Exercising in the Park, Tehran
Following people show the health conscious residents of Tehran, Iran's capital city, engaging in various exercises in a park. - 10/21/09
About 20,000 Iranians HIV positive
19,700 of the country's over 70 million population have so far been diagnosed with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the pathogen that causes AIDS, head of Infectious Diseases Department of the Health Ministry announced in Tehran on Saturday. - 10/17/09
Photos: In recognition of World Sight Day
Following photos show blind Iranian children and youngsters engaging in educational and social activities. World Sight Day (WSD) is an international day of awareness, held annually on the second Thursday of October to focus attention on the global issue of avoidable blindness and visual impairment. - 10/14/09
Swine flu claims 3 more lives in Iran, death toll reaches 10
The Iranian Health Ministry announced on Tuesday that three more persons have died of swine flu virus over the last week, bringing the number of patients who have died so far of the H1N1 disease to 10 in the country. - 10/14/09
Iran: Tainted rice imports issue simmers, MPs call for new probe
The dispute over the quality of imported rice arose after reports that Iran had detected high levels of arsenic, cadmium, and lead in the rice imported from India over the past few weeks. A number of officials from Iran's standards institute announced that the rice is really contaminated and that the rice contains unacceptable levels of arsenic, cadmium, and mercury. - 10/5/09
The Unjust Imprisonment of Kamiar and Arash Alaei
This article or letter, what have you, is a document written to shed some light about the personalities of Arash and Kamiar Alaei, their work, and the events surrounding their arrest in June of 2008. On December 31st, 2008 Kamiar and Arash were charged with conspiracy to overthrow the Iranian government by way of a "velvet revolution" under article 508 of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Penal Code. I fear that this comes as too little too late, but I trust that justice will prevail in the end. -Hossein Sohrevardi - 9/17/09
Regular flu more fatal than swine flu in Iran
Seasonal flu death rate is higher than swine flu's, the director of the Iranian Society of Internists warned in Tehran on Saturday. - 9/5/09
Schools with 10% swine flu cases to be closed: Iranian official
Schools, which have 10 percent of students diagnosed with swine flu will be closed, an official at the Health Ministry announced here on Tuesday. Most recently, Nabavi warned of inevitable high swine flu death in Iran in case the current trend continues. - 9/1/09
Cigarette, drug smuggling on the rise in Iran
About six and a half billion cigarettes are smuggled into Iran per year, the managing director of the Iranian Tobacco Company said here on Tuesday. Being a neighbor of the biggest drug producer in the world, the Islamic Republic has also suffered the greatest financial and human losses in its efforts to fight drug trafficking, Abtahi added. - 8/26/09
Physicians Day: No job security for Iranian physicians
According to official figures, there are about 110,000 general practitioners and specialists working across the country. They sometimes earn less than those in occupations requiring lower levels of qualification and expertise, despite the often grueling challenges they face in their work. - 8/22/09
Early Ramadan Raises Health Concerns
For the first time in a decade, Muslims will be observing the holy month of Ramadan in what will be the peak of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. The timing has prompted concerns over how Muslim believers can deal with sunrise-to-sunset food and water abstention, while maintaining their health. - 8/20/09
Swine Flu Cases Hit 238 in Iran
A total of 238 people in Iran have been so far diagnosed with swine flu, the Health Ministry announced on Wednesday. - 8/19/09
Tehran hosting Anti-AIDS and Drug Addiction Theater Festival
The Second Anti-AIDS and Drug Addiction Theater Festival kicked off at the Daneshju Cultural Center on Monday. Several artists and officials from Iran's State Welfare Organization, Iran's Drug Control Headquarters and Drug Control Police attended the opening program. - 8/18/09
Flu Fears Prompt Iranian Ban on Ramadan Pilgrimages
Iran has banned its citizens from making pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia during Ramadan in an effort to slow the spread of the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu. - 8/7/09
Swine flu victims reach 42 in Iran
The number of people found infected with swine flu virus has reached 42, the director of the infectious diseases management department at the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. - 7/28/09
Swine flu cases confirmed in Iran's provinces of South Khorasan and Kerman
Health officials have confirmed that two people in South Khorasan and Kerman provinces who had returned from pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia were found infected with swine flu virus. - 7/24/09
Iran's swine flu cases increase to 9: minister
Health Minister Kamran Baqeri-Lankarani stated here on Tuesday that 9 cases of swine flu have been detected in Iran. Lankarani added none of the detected cases have been infected in Iran. - 7/22/09
25% of death in Iran caused by tobacco: Minister
Speaking on the sidelines of a ceremony on the occasion of the World No Tobacco Day, Lankarani lamented the fact that there was 4%-5% fall in the country's average smoking age. - 6/1/09
Iranian activist receives Tobacco-Free World Award
Tobacco-Free World Award was presented to the head of Iran's Tobacco Control Headquarters, Mostafa Ghaffari by director general of World Health Organization (WHO). - 5/26/09
Photos: Mass Family Walk in Tabriz, Iran
People in the provincial city of Tabriz participated in a mass family walk on Friday May 22nd. -Photos by Navid Jadidoleslam, ISNA - 5/22/09
2nd International congress on heart failure underway in Tehran
Second International Congress on Heart Failure opened late on Wednesday and will continue until May 15. Specialists from The Netherlands, France, Britain and Italy are taking part at the congress. - 5/14/09
Post-crash management of road traffic injury victims in Iran. Stakeholders' views on current barriers and potential facilitators
Road traffic injuries are a major public health problem, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Post-crash management can play a significant role in minimizing crash consequences and saving lives. - 5/13/09
First International seminar on pain underway in Bandar Anzali
First International Seminar on Pain and Ninth Annual Scientific Meeting of Iranian Pain Society opened here on Saturday and will continue until May 11. - 5/9/09
Iran's first herbal anti-cancer drug to enter the market soon
Spinal-z is a methanolic mixture of dried powdered seeds, domestic to Iran, which are considered poisonous on their own. The combination of the herbs has shown promising results in treating stomach cancer. - 5/7/09
X Prize Offered for Health Care Innovation
The Ansari X Prize was funded in part by the family of Iranian American entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari. - 5/5/09
First neurology center opens in Tabriz
Iran's first neurology center was inaugurated here at Imam Reza (AS) Medical Educational Center with the aim of curing epilepsy. With the commissioning of the center, Tabriz has become the country's scientific hub in the field. - 5/3/09
Iranian American Medical Association: Improving Lives and Shaping Futures
A group of Iranian-American doctors have not forgotten the residents of Bam, and have embarked on an ambitious effort to build a free clinic in the recovering city. With thirteen-thousand square meters of land donated by the city council of Bam, the clinic will be comprised of four major sections: an advanced general medical facility, a building for specialty services, a same-day surgery unit and a residential unit for physicians and visiting specialists from around the world. - 5/1/09
WHO Urges Governments To Put Flu Plans Into Action
Iran's Health Ministry has urged travelers to avoid visiting the United States and Mexico. No cases of the potentially deadly virus have been identified in Iran. Mohammad Mehdi Gooya, who heads the department of disease control in the Health Ministry, said travelers who arrive from abroad will be tested and advised to go to special hospitals if the are found to be infected. - 4/30/09
10 million smokers, 31 million second-hand smokers in Iran
More than 31 million of the country's total population are second-hand smokers, head of research center of Iran Anti-Tobacco Association (IATA) said in Tehran on Sunday. - 4/26/09
International conference on Hemophilia kicks off in Isfahan
An international conference on Hemophilia began in this ancient city Sunday morning on the occasion of the world Hemophilia Day (April 17) with participation of over 450 leading domestic and foreign physicians. - 4/19/09
Iran: Over 50% of kidney donors under 26
More than 50% of kidney donors in the country are between the ages of 25 and 26, managing director of Iranian Kidney Foundation said here on Saturday. - 4/18/09
Iran at forefront of stem cell research
Though the world's attention has focused on Iran's advancing nuclear program, Iranian scientists have moved to the forefront in embryonic stem cell research, according to a recent joint study by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. -Washington Times - 4/16/09
Iran Makes Breakthrough in Simultaneous Transplantation
Iranian surgeons for the first time in the world transplanted a patient's heart and her two lungs simultaneously in a Tehran hospital. -FNA - 4/16/09
Talk examines sex changes in Iran
Faegheh Shirazi, an associate professor in the department of Middle Eastern studies, delivered a lecture called “Transexuality: Sex Change Operations and its Legalization by the Islamic Republic of Iran” on Friday in Garrison Hall. The lecture detailed the history of a procedure rarely associated with Iran. -Daily Texan - 4/14/09
Meeting of Eastern-Western Medicine: A Possible Alternative Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis
Since I have been experimenting with the fascinating I-Health System, a system I had dreamt about when first starting to study Alternative Medicine about two decades ago, some of my other pressing questions in regard to various Eastern-Western medical systems and approaches were accidentally also verified. -Roya Monajem, Tehran - 4/9/09
Yazd to host International congress on diabetes
Announcing this, head of Yazd Diabetes Research Center, Mohammad Afkhami-Ardakani told IRNA on Thursday that the three-day event is to be attended by the Iranian experts as well as specialists from Germany, the US, England, Spain, India, Nigeria and Pakistan. - 4/9/09
No increase in height of Iranians in ten years
Iranians have not been getting taller over the past ten years, a subspecialist in endocrinology said here on Tuesday. Iraj Heidari blamed social and psychological problems, lack of exercises, insomnia, stress, and family problems, and mainly poor diet as the main factors in creating such problem in the country. - 4/7/09
International congress on radiology to open in Tehran on April 28
The 25th International Congress on Radiology will be held at Olympic Hotel in Tehran from April 28-May 1 with the aim of presenting the latest achievements in the field. - 4/7/09
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